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August 22, 2011

Precisely Why Kids Can't Marry, Drive Cars, and Have Kids Of Their Own

optical illusion

Gray gabbed the entire time we were in the car yesterday, but I didn't mind because our days together grow short- him starting school all day on Wednesday. He talked about marriage, of course, and I tried to explain why he couldn't marry his cousin Lauren. So his shoulders drooped and he said, Fiiiiiiiiiine. I'll just marry Ivy then I guess. And then we had to talk some more.Then Ivy cried because she and Gray can't get married.

He got to talking about having kids and he said, When I have kids, if I don't have room in my car I will have to put the extra kid in the trunk. And of course I told him that he can't do that and he said, But it will be in the trunk! No one will know.

My oldest was convinced he would never get married because he never wanted to move out. So now we've worked out a plan that when he gets married, he and his family will just live with us. I SO hope that plan sticks. :)

Oh Steph this is priceless!! Libby keeps telling me when she grows up sh wants to be a Mama Whale. Broke her heart when Amelia told her she couldn't be a whale. Oh, and both if my girls still tell ne they are marrying their brothers. I love it.

my daughter always says she's going to marry her Daddy... and that I will marry our son. We tried to explain to her that she will have to marry another boy cuz mommy and daddy are married... she didn't get it.

I was just thinking about little kids and their views on marriage the other day, when Luke told me he wanted to marry his cousin. I think it means that we're doing something right in our own marriages when kids equate marrying someone with simply wanting to spend the rest of their life with someone they really love.

I'm so looking forward to those chats with my boys. I guess I have at least three to four years to wait. :-)

p.s. I remember working out an agreement with my cousin to get married when we grew up. I was SO upset when my mother told me we couldn't. The reasoning seemed so stupid to my 8-year-old mind! @mrs_jennyk

HI Steph - I was so inspired by a poem I read on Lovelyn's blog today which she linked back to your original post and the same poem. Just wanted to let you know I did one too! Thanks for the inspiration.http://onesummerscall.blogspot.com/2011/08/where-im-from.html

lol i love the 'kid in the trunk' i always joke with my kids (we are a family of 6 with only a 5 seater sedan, trips take 2 cars) that we will just put 1 of them in the trunk so we can all drive together!!